Value of Production Index (VaPI) grows at slower rate Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry registered a 3.1 percent growth in September 2003 compared with year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the…

Value and quantity of domestic trade declined In the first quarter of 2003, the total value of domestic trade decreased by 9.4 percent, resulting to P74.59 billion from P82.37 billion registered during the same period of last year. Water was the…

Total external trade in goods for January to September 2003 amounted to $54.219 billion or 2.6 percent higher than $52.827 billion during the same period last year. The bill for foreign-made merchandise went up by 4.8 percent to $27.952 billion from…

Seventy-one percent (71%) of NSO's clients are either satisfied or very satisfied with its civil registry services. This was the result of the September 2003 round of the Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS. This was 4 percentage points higher than a…

Approved building permits during the second quarter of 2003 summed up to 23,557, representing a decrease of 7.5 percent compared with 25,459 approved building permits recorded over the same period of last year. An increase in applications over the…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 155.4 and 159.2 in October from their respective September levels of 153.9 and 159.1.

Year-on-year inflation went up to 3.1 percent in October from 2.9 percent in September primarily brought about by a 0.5 percentage point increment in the inflation rate of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT).

Merchandise exports move up by 2.3 percent Registered earnings for September 2003 grew by 2.3 percent to $3.264 billion from $3.191 billion during the same month a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports for January to September 2003 rose…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) continues to gain Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry posted an 11.9 percent growth in August 2003 compared with year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…

Total external trade in goods for January to August 2003 amounted to $47.910 billion or 3.2 percent higher than $46.446 billion during the same period a year ago. The bill for foreign-made merchandise increased by 6.1 percent to $24.908 billion from…